Category Archives: Food & Drink

There are many great Halloween cookbooks out there, but given the sheer selection, I thought it would be a good idea to provide you with my recommendations for the best ones.

If you’re looking for a larger collection of recipes or prefer to have a hard copy on hand at all times, these are some of the Halloween cookbooks I like to keep handy. I don’t own the rights to these, but do check them out. For a small price, they could save you a lot of hassle.

Looking for original, ready-made Halloween treats that you can simply buy and serve? Here are some of my favourite treats.

On top of being high-quality candies and chocolates, you can get them shipped directly to your door, no cooking required. They’re also different from the usual Halloween fare, which is great if you’re hoping to offer something different.

Just click, order, and voila. They are absolutely delicious and your guests will love them!

So you’re hosting a Halloween party and you need some ideas for how to set up your bar? No problem! I’m here to help with some Halloween party bar ideas that will ensure your event is set up for success.

Drinks, like music, can quickly make or break a party, so they are an very important consideration. You’ll need to think about things like what to serve as well as where and how to serve them.

Let’s take a quick look at each of these key points to ensure you’ve covered all your bases.

Tombstone brownies are a Halloween dessert that’s super-easy and quick to make. You can make this in a matter of minutes if you use ready-made brownies. These are popular with both children and adults – everyone loves chocolate brownies – so it’s a great addition to your Halloween party menu.

So you need Halloween-themed alcoholic drink recipes for your adult Halloween party? The Brain Hemorrhage, Candy Corn Martini, and other cocktails featured here are guaranteed to add some serious fun to your Halloween event, get people in a partying mood, and keep the fun going all night long! After all, what’s an adult Halloween party without spooky drinks?

I’ve tried numerous Halloween drinks, and many just don’t fit Halloween well enough or they simply don’t taste very good. The drinks I’ve listed here are my personal favourites and are always well-received by my party guests. They fit the Halloween theme, look amazing, and taste great. There’s even a pumpkin spice beer recipe!

Feel free to share your own favourite drinks by posting a comment below!

A party guest having fun holding up my Eyeball Punch tent card next to his phony black eye.

Here are some free, printable Halloween food labels to help your guests identify your devilish dishes. Labeling your food improves your party guests’ experience by providing transparency around nutritional information. If done right, they can also enhance the spooky spirit of your Halloween party. As you can see from this picture, the labels can actually become part of the fun themselves!

Unlike bottle labels for wine and soda, which should be purchased as stickers because they need to stick to bottles and contend with condensation all night, food labels can simply be printed at home and folded as tent cards. This makes them easier to customize and saves you a few dollars as well. In the spirit of helping you plan the perfect Halloween party, I thought I’d share the template I created for my Halloween food label tent cards. Feel free to use this template as you see fit, free of charge. Just be sure to let people know where you found it, if they ask!

Sticking a spooky glow-in-the-dark Halloween label to your bottle of wine, soda, or spirits is a super-quick way to add some fun to your drinks. Kids will love the eerie pop bottles and adults will get a kick out of seeing scary stickers on the bottle of their favourite drink. They instantly transform wine, soda, and liquor into bottles of poison, blood, zombie virus, truth serum, witch’s brew, and other devilish drinks!

While there are some printable templates available on the internet, I always prefer to buy professionally-made stickers for three simple reasons: they look better, they stick better, and they’re cheap. Since your labels need to stick to bottles and contend with condensation all night, it’s best to avoid homemade versions. To top it off, ready-made stickers will save you time as well, and if you’re responsible for organizing and hosting a Halloween party, you’ll need all the help you can get. This is one simple, inexpensive way to add fun to your party with virtually no effort.

Need easy Halloween drink recipes? A nice cup of eyeball punch is perfect for kids and adults alike. A constant guest favourite, it looks like a giant bowl of eyeball-infested blood and is sure to be a hit at your next Halloween party.

In addition to being a natural favourite among children, it’s a great alcohol-free alternative for adults who don’t drink or are abstaining from alcohol because they’re acting as designated driver for the evening. After all, everyone should have a good time!

One of the easiest Halloween dessert recipes is a spiderweb pumpkin pie. If you use a ready-made pie, this is quick and simple to prepare. When you’re planning a Halloween party, there’s so much to do and if you don’t have a lot of help, it’s sometimes necessary to take shortcuts here and there. This is one dish that you can create quickly – and what says Halloween better than pumpkin-flavoured sweets?

Here’s the official recipe for Carol’s cookies from The Walking Dead. If you’re a fan of the hit AMC zombie drama, you’ve likely wondered — like me — what Carol’s chocolate-applesauce cookies taste like. In my case, it had less to do with a genuine gastronomic curiosity and more to do with the fact that these were the cookies she offered them to a young boy after she threatened to feed him to walkers!

Regardless, they’re a tasty treat and oh-so-perfect for Halloween parties – especially zombie-themed ones! This recipe is for a dozen cookies, so if you want “lots and lots of cookies,” (see what I did there?) you might want to make more than one batch.